As an Engineering Manager, you will…
- Lead the architectural design of key components, tooling, and infrastructure
- Inspire your team and others with technical vision and customer obsession
- Empower engineers and solutions architects to solve problems, fostering a balance of velocity and rigor through scalable, asynchronous decision-making practices
- Be the primary technical interface for technical grant work and vendor work
 - Influence additional technical roadmaps of Bedrock, IP Stewards, Sentinel, etc
- Drive decisions around technical priorities, approach, testing, maintenance, etc
 - Roll up your sleeves with hands on contributions when necessary
- Develop expertise in the data onboarding journey and become a key point of contact for advising large data owners with solutions
- Lead, improve, and document processes for technical prioritization, planning, design, implementation and releases in harmony with and expanding open source community participation
- Maintain a positive and supportive work culture
You may be a fit for this role if you have…
- Demonstrable success as an engineering lead/manager fostering highly-functional, healthy, inclusive and collaborative teams
- Experience in an early-stage product/team and building tools from scratch for early adopters
- Technical credibility through lengthy software engineering experience with back-end and distributed systems and infrastructure
- A strong desire for and history of contributions to open source projects and communities
- Experience working with and/or managing geographically distributed teams
- Ability to thrive with a high level of self-direction, autonomy and responsibility
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- An excitement for collaborating with people across Protocol Labs towards our shared mission
Bonus Points
- Experience in an early-stage product/team and building tools from scratch for early adopters
- You have experience with or deep knowledge of SaaS tools, globally distributed systems, blockchain or other related domains
- Demonstrable open source community curation and leadership experience